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How difficult is it to port something from Unix to BSD?

mattyb 17y ago
Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
- charlesju 17y ago
  How did your answer get up-voted 7 times. This confuses me; you put me down AND didn't answer my question.
  - blasdel 17y ago
    You asked the equivalent of 'how is babby formed?'
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
silentbicycle 17y ago
It's not that hard, provided the people who wrote it are aware that other Unices exist besides Linux. (I've done a bit of porting to OpenBSD. It's a pet peeve of mine when people hardcode references to bash for no good reason.)
- blasdel 17y ago
  It doesn't help matters at all that bash leaks bashism-support when run as /bin/sh -- it's much better that people specify bash than ship scripts that falsely claim to be bourne-compatible (since they are unlikely to test against a pure-bourne shell). Not having a /bin/bash a losing battle -- it's way too late to get people to use the theoretically more correct #!/usr/bin/env bash just because the greybeard unices don't ship with it (despite shipping with plenty of other GPL software) and their package managers put it (when they are nice) in /usr/local/bin Edit: That's not a diss on the greybeard unices -- I used FreeBSD and loved it dearly for years. I actually really like that they segregate all user-installed packages into a seperate root at /usr/local/ -- but for practical reasons I always make symlinks for binaries with well known locations (to use the robots.txt / favicon.ico pejorative).
charlesju 17y ago
Did I seriously get down-voted for asking a legitimate technical question? That's an abusive down-vote in my opinion, people should be able to ask technical questions without being ridiculed because they don't know the specific inner-workings of different OS kernels.
- jibiki 17y ago
  Um, BSD is a unix, right? Did you mean to ask about porting from Linux to BSD?
  - charlesju 17y ago
    Ah ok, fair enough. How hard is porting from Linux to BSD?
    - mxcl 17y ago
      In my experience not hard as long as you wrote portable code. The hardest bit is compiling a universal binary.
zzkt 17y ago
It's about as easy as translating from American into English.

Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

charlesju 17y ago
How did your answer get up-voted 7 times. This confuses me; you put me down AND didn't answer my question.
- blasdel 17y ago
  You asked the equivalent of 'how is babby formed?'
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]

silentbicycle 17y ago

It's not that hard, provided the people who wrote it are aware that other Unices exist besides Linux. (I've done a bit of porting to OpenBSD. It's a pet peeve of mine when people hardcode references to bash for no good reason.)

blasdel 17y ago
It doesn't help matters at all that bash leaks bashism-support when run as /bin/sh -- it's much better that people specify bash than ship scripts that falsely claim to be bourne-compatible (since they are unlikely to test against a pure-bourne shell). Not having a /bin/bash a losing battle -- it's way too late to get people to use the theoretically more correct #!/usr/bin/env bash just because the greybeard unices don't ship with it (despite shipping with plenty of other GPL software) and their package managers put it (when they are nice) in /usr/local/bin Edit: That's not a diss on the greybeard unices -- I used FreeBSD and loved it dearly for years. I actually really like that they segregate all user-installed packages into a seperate root at /usr/local/ -- but for practical reasons I always make symlinks for binaries with well known locations (to use the robots.txt / favicon.ico pejorative).

charlesju 17y ago

Did I seriously get down-voted for asking a legitimate technical question? That's an abusive down-vote in my opinion, people should be able to ask technical questions without being ridiculed because they don't know the specific inner-workings of different OS kernels.

jibiki 17y ago
Um, BSD is a unix, right? Did you mean to ask about porting from Linux to BSD?
- charlesju 17y ago
  Ah ok, fair enough. How hard is porting from Linux to BSD?
  - mxcl 17y ago
    In my experience not hard as long as you wrote portable code. The hardest bit is compiling a universal binary.

zzkt 17y ago

It's about as easy as translating from American into English.